Hello, I recently started mucking around with twitter. I couldn't see the point in it but now must admit it's pretty interesting. I think it will great during the tour de France . Here some of the ones I have found Cadelofficial cyclingcentral Andy_shleck Anyone have any more worth following?

Here's a couple I follow:@tokyobybike and @grist (which sometimes posts stuff on bikes)

I've decided following sports people on Twitter ruins the illusion of their greatness and sporting prowess. I followed Shane Warne, Pup Clarke and Steph Rice and quickly unfollowed them. @warne888 and his banter with Liz really was TMI! Lance is the exception and a couple of retired union players

CommuRider wrote:Are you still on dial-up HH? I think Twitter's great for dial-up folks. It's the internet on steroids and not too much bandwidth being expended either.

Not quite.. but I am still on my first DSL modem I bought about 7 years ago after taking the leap from Dial-Up

I was on Facebook for a while; but in the end I got about as much satisfaction and enjoyment as I do fighting my way through busy shopping centres of a Saturday morning. I deleted my account deciding the medium was best left to women & teenagers much like the shopping malls.

I think Facebook jumped the shark with the facial recognition thing over the weekend. Funny how very willing people are to post so much information on that site. If it were a government body, people would think twice.

I remember when I did sign up initially - instantly I had all these invites from people that obviously had my e-mail in their address book that they'd so graciously allowed FB to share. That was 18 months ago and it bugged the crap out of me then.

"Last December, Facebook announced it was implementing facial recognition technology that will scan images as they're uploaded, find similar images others have uploaded, and suggest name tags based on other tags it found during its scan...

"The bigger problem is tagging itself. Letting other people tag photos can have unforeseen consequences. Say you're a Congressman who likes to post close-ups of himself in his underwear (I'm just picking this example at random). Exactly whose manhood is filling out those BVDs is still a matter of debate at this point. Once somebody tags it with a name, though, we all know whose Weiner it is.

If that's too silly, consider this real-world example. Until recently, I had a photo of a woman's undergarment (not mine) posted to my Facebook page. Without going into too many details, let me assure you it was all pretty innocent. Last week somebody tagged that photo with the name of the person who owned that particular undergarment. Suddenly it's not so innocent. The owner of said brassiere - now mortified that her name was associated with this image -- begged me to remove the photo, which I did. "

I wonder how effective phototagging will be eg plastic surgery. Finding your doppelganger gets weirder and weirder by the minute.

As posted by the first commenter to the article Commurider just posted - the ability of facebook members to tag people in photos who do not have a facebooks account and once again so graciously get to specify the non-members e-mail!!! Arrgh... FFS!

I don't object to it as much as the "journalists" or "secret police" take whatever is posted on Facebook as the facts and then report it to the wider public as the truth. There doesn't seem much verification going on anymore when journos just search on Facebook and come up with someone else's profile. Pity the other Kim Duthies/Osama Bin Ladens/John Ibrahims of this world who just happen to share the same name. You want mob rule? Just go on Facebook You want revenge? Just go on Facebook and tag a nude photo of a stripper/escort with their name Next thing you know, the journos will report "XXX's secret life as a stripper" because they saw it on FB? Given FB's lack of action to take personal matters seriously, that website is just rife for defamation.

Here's a couple I follow:@tokyobybike and @grist (which sometimes posts stuff on bikes)

I've decided following sports people on Twitter ruins the illusion of their greatness and sporting prowess. I followed Shane Warne, Pup Clarke and Steph Rice and quickly unfollowed them. @warne888 and his banter with Liz really was TMI! Lance is the exception and a couple of retired union players

Thanks. @warne888 is getting 'unfollowed' very soon. Didn't have him until recently, getting sick of the garbage. And he's a saints supporter

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